Has anyone gotten XBMC working on the Kindle Fire? Curious what ROM and XBMC build they are using. Video playback is choppy the few ROMs I've tried with the latest beta.
Yes it works fine.
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Yes it works fine.
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What ROM and version XBMC are you using? Also, do you happen to know what video type you're streaming from XBMC?
I was using it on twa_priv's sgt7 4.1.2 but now on 4.2.1 the full neon version of xbmc off of Xda I have only used it with the video addons in particular works flawlessly. There are a few addons that are not working yet. No clue what stream format it is. Here's where I got the apk http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1813089 .
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Is anyone using the Plex app? I'm currently running RandomKing's Thunderhawk 1.1 ROM and Plex videos aren't working. Apparently there are issues with some custom ROMs not working with Plex. From what I've gathered, there is essentially a permissions issue where Plex cannot create a file to write the stream to for the phone to read and play from.
I've been using PlayOn which did the job, but Plex seems to be nicer, faster, and you could skip in videos. So if anyone has this working, what ROM are you using and which version of the Plex app do you have? Any point in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
I have the plex app (awesome btw) and I never had an issue with it on custom roms, and I've been flashing new ones constantly since July. I'm currently on CM7 and it works great
I was wondering if anyone has had any success in getting netflix to airplay to their Ouya?
So far I've tried a few applications, AirReceiverLite, Airpin and an older version of airtight (they've protected the APK on the latest version, can't move it over to the Ouya). All of these applications work great when streaming music or youtube videos but all fail when using netflix.
Try xbmc.
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=AirPlay
Thanks for the suggestion, XBMC would have been my first choice, unfortunatley airplay doesn't seem to work with the current official build of XBMC for the Ouya.
psilonaut said:
Thanks for the suggestion, XBMC would have been my first choice, unfortunatley airplay doesn't seem to work with the current official build of XBMC for the Ouya.
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try cheapcast or airtight they both works great
I have installed XBMC and SPMC in my AFTV and I have been playing with both, I really don't find a lot of differences, only that SPMC is a little bit tweaked to autoboot and maybe other changes that I haven't noticed.
I believe that SPMC is more optimized to work more estable on our Fire TV than XBMC am I right or wrong?,
Any other benefits to use XBMC instead of SPMC in our device?
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I have installed XBMC and SPMC in my AFTV and I have been playing with both, I really don't find a lot of differences, only that SPMC is a little bit tweaked to autoboot and maybe other changes that I haven't noticed.
I believe that SPMC is more optimized to work more estable on our Fire TV than XBMC am I right or wrong?,
Any other benefits to use XBMC instead of SPMC in our device?
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I recently switched from XBMC to SPMC to fix a fast forwarding bug as well as a sleeping bug. Haven't noticed any difference other than those two annoyances are fixed. Plus I installed it from the play store so I can auto update in that manner now rather than manually pushing it.
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I recently switched from XBMC to SPMC to fix a fast forwarding bug as well as a sleeping bug. Haven't noticed any difference other than those two annoyances are fixed. Plus I installed it from the play store so I can auto update in that manner now rather than manually pushing it.
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I have installed the 12.4 spmc dated april 11th 2014 version first outlined in the xbmc firetv wiki which was for the ouya. If you go to system and system info, it reads 90-100 fps where future versions of spmc and all versions of xbmc are at about 30fps with the same 1920x1080 resolution. Not sure if there is a real world difference but just something I noticed.
Interesting, thanks
Does the modified keyboard.xml file fix the fast forward bug. Details for it are in wiki. I used first keyboard file with good results.
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I scanned through the wiki but I'm not sure what you are referring to. Is using one of elmerohueso's XBMC Tweaks for FTV keyboard.xml files.
The problem I was having is that I could not skip forward in videos. It would try and jump forward but then resume playing at the same spot. The counter would also not work correctly. Then if I tried to skip backwards it would always go to the same spot. Kind of hard to explain.
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Spmc is a mess!! Does not work with aftv! Does not update addons and does not let you delete scripts, using kodi now!! Works with pseudo
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Kodi is stable enough?
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I scanned through the wiki but I'm not sure what you are referring to. Is using one of elmerohueso's XBMC Tweaks for FTV keyboard.xml files.
The problem I was having is that I could not skip forward in videos. It would try and jump forward but then resume playing at the same spot. The counter would also not work correctly. Then if I tried to skip backwards it would always go to the same spot. Kind of hard to explain.
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to fix the skip bug, simply disable mediacodec in the video acceleration menu, then fully reboot the box. It is caused by a bug in the mediacodec implementation on firetv. Leave stagefright enabled.
In the latest version of the kodi alpahas, mediacodec appears to be working fine on the firetv.
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Spmc is a mess!! Does not work with aftv! Does not update addons and does not let you delete scripts, using kodi now!! Works with pseudo
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Huh? I suppose the comment was made by your evil phone and not by you
I have SPMC 13.3.2 working perfectly on AFTV...not sure what your problems are. Addons get updated and everything else works. Koyig is one of the original contributors to XBMC for Android/Ouya...been using SPMC for more than a year now.
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Huh? I suppose the comment was made by your evil phone and not by you
I have SPMC 13.3.2 working perfectly on AFTV...not sure what your problems are. Addons get updated and everything else works. Koyig is one of the original contributors to XBMC for Android/Ouya...been using SPMC for more than a year now.
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totally agree spmc is solid.
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totally agree spmc is solid.
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I too switched to spmc last night. Kodi wouldn't play .ts files properly. Would stutter after a while. SPMC does that well and has the suspend benefits. So far no real issues noticed.
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to fix the skip bug, simply disable mediacodec in the video acceleration menu, then fully reboot the box. It is caused by a bug in the mediacodec implementation on firetv. Leave stagefright enabled.
In the latest version of the kodi alpahas, mediacodec appears to be working fine on the firetv.
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I just tried disabling mediacodec and it seems that the skip bug has gone too. Is mediacodec important? I don't see any difference. At the moment, SPMC is really the most stable platform I've seen. It can play .ts all the mkv's I have properly. Unless I find a content that does not work, I'll stick on. no need to fix what is not broken.
Spmc the sound it's not 5.1 and does not update add ons properly on aftv. Maybe I'm wrong but it does not feel like gotham
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Aeon nox gotham plus will not work with it!! No keyboard
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mastafunk said:
to fix the skip bug, simply disable mediacodec in the video acceleration menu, then fully reboot the box. It is caused by a bug in the mediacodec implementation on firetv. Leave stagefright enabled.
In the latest version of the kodi alpahas, mediacodec appears to be working fine on the firetv.
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Spmc the sound it's not 5.1 and does not update add ons properly on aftv. Maybe I'm wrong but it does not feel like gotham
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I get 5.1 but i do a passthrough. without passthrough to the bose, I get 2.0 even on gotham/helix with the firetv.
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Spmc the sound it's not 5.1 and does not update add ons properly on aftv. Maybe I'm wrong but it does not feel like gotham
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SPMC is working for me with zero issues regarding 5.1 surround and updating of addons. Oh, and it truly does feel like Gotham as that is essentially what SPMC is with the added fixes by an official XBMC/Android developer named @Koying.
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I recently switched from XBMC to SPMC to fix a fast forwarding bug as well as a sleeping bug. Haven't noticed any difference other than those two annoyances are fixed. Plus I installed it from the play store so I can auto update in that manner now rather than manually pushing it.
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I installed the latest spmc using the push method but would like to be able to auto update int he future is there a way to do this without uninstalling then reinstalling from the play store? I am rooted etc.
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I installed the latest spmc using the push method but would like to be able to auto update int he future is there a way to do this without uninstalling then reinstalling from the play store? I am rooted etc.
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I rather not have it auto update. The latest version of kodi which is 13.3.3 has the .ts file playback issue as is the case with Gotham. Surprisingly, the 13.3.2 version has it working just fine.
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I got the Kodi 14 RC1 install on my Fire Stick. It works really well despite one problem, blurriness despite at high resolution like 1080p. For example, if I watch a twitch stream through XBMC or Twitch app itself, the picture looks like it runs on 360/480 despite I select 1080p. I read in some of posts that this seems to be some software codec issues since for certain video files it runs fine without the blurriness issue. Also, Netflix is not working, it will starts to play then stop. I wonder if Amazon is aware of this and they are going to fix it soon.
On another note, my FireStick is running the original firmware (54.1.0.0_user_100211520). They have and updated version of the software, version 54.1.0.1_user_101016220. I want to know if anybody is running this newer version. Is the newer version fix the blurriness issue and Netflix? If yes, then I will upgrade it to the newer version since it is annoying since I can't read any small text at higher resolution because it is too blurry.
Thanks for your help.
Just got my stick yesterday and I allowed the system update. I can confirm Netflix works without issue. I'm also running TVMC which is based on XBMC Gotham 13.2, this also runs great, crisp picture on 1080p movies. Maybe the newer codecs in Kodi 14 not optimized for FireTV stick?
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Just got my stick yesterday and I allowed the system update. I can confirm Netflix works without issue. I'm also running TVMC which is based on XBMC Gotham 13.2, this also runs great, crisp picture on 1080p movies. Maybe the newer codecs in Kodi 14 not optimized for FireTV stick?
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Hello,
Thanks for the info. I just did an upgrade to the newer version and you are right. Netflix runs great on it. However, Kodi 14.0 RC1 still has the same blurrines. I guess I will just wait till the official 14.0 is released. Thanks for replying.
Yup, same here, Kodi UI is crisp but videos are blurry. . I hope this gets ironed out.
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I concur. I'm having the same issue on my FireTV Stick. I'm running it on a 720p display. I will also try it on a 1080p display and see if it's any better.
I have tried both XBMC 13.2 and SPMC (13.3 I think) and they are both not as sharp as the native FireTV Stick apps even though I'm playing Blu-Ray rips through XBMC.
Was having the same issue with my stick and gave up and sold it, hopefully someone can find a fix and I'd buy it again, great value
Blurry Firestick with Green line aross the bottom and doubled focus
I just joined to say thank you for helping me figire it out.....i turned on game mode in the device manager on my samsung 65 inch tv and it FIXED it completley....i have been workinf trying to figur it out for months...SOOOOOOOOOOO .thank you THANK YOU THANK YOU
So I decided to pick up AFTV a week ago after reading so many good reviews about the device and how well it runs Kodi, but I am having an issue running certain MKV files with dual audio. When I try to play the videos Kodi either crashes to the FTV menu or restarts the whole device. I tried to disable the accelerators in settings and the video starts to play with stuttering and no audio. Anyone know what could be the cause of this and is there a fix available.
BTW I'm running Helix 14.0
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So I decided to pick up AFTV a week ago after reading so many good reviews about the device and how well it runs Kodi, but I am having an issue running certain MKV files with dual audio. When I try to play the videos Kodi either crashes to the FTV menu or restarts the whole device. I tried to disable the accelerators in settings and the video starts to play with stuttering and no audio. Anyone know what could be the cause of this and is there a fix available.
BTW I'm running Helix 14.0
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I had the same issues with both XBMC 13 and 14.. After lots of searching I found
I cant post links yet, but google "Work in Progress - Experimental simple deinterlacing" and you will get the Kodi forum that has an updated kodi for the issue.
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Try SPMC. I had problems of somekind with all versions of XBMC that I have tried on the Fire TV til I installed SPMC. I have not had one problem with SPMC and could instantly tell a difference in the smoothness of streams and video playback.
I think i've tried them all.
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Try SPMC. I had problems of somekind with all versions of XBMC that I have tried on the Fire TV til I installed SPMC. I have not had one problem with SPMC and could instantly tell a difference in the smoothness of streams and video playback.
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My problem with any version of XBMC whether it be SPMC or KODI is that 720p MPEG-2 always stutters. I've tried everything I think including.
SW only
Listagefright only
Mediacodec only
Listagefright and MediaCodec
SPMC 13.4 & 14.2 (I think these are the final versions i used)
KODI 13.4 & 14.2 & 15.1 (I think those are the final versions)
My next try was going to be to use MX player and the playercorefactory.xml but so far I haven't been able to get that to work. It just flashes really quick and does nothing when I click on a channel.
BTW....I have comcast so everything is in MPEG-2 and I use an HDHOMERUN prime that feeds a windows 7 machine with WMC running serverWMC and Plex (w/ serverWMC plex plugin). I also have an xbox 360 and that works perfectly but the only way I can get fire tv stick to work reliably is by transcoding to h.264. But this adds at least 10 seconds to a channel change and It really complicates the setup and maintenance. I would really like to not have to transcode and use KODI on the firetv stick as my front end. However, without mpeg2 720p support I can't.